Bing Updates Deep Links Management While Google Displays Up To Ten Sitelinks

Microsoft Bing announced changes to the way they allow webmasters to manage their “deep links” in the search results, while Google has quietly added up to ten sitelinks for a navigational query. Bing Deep Links Update Vincent Wehren, Senior Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Tools,…

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Preview Google’s New Structured Data Dashboard Beta

A couple weeks ago, we reported Google opened up invite requests to join a beta of the structure data dashboard. I signed up immediately and yesterday, I, along with other webmasters received my welcome email to take a look at the report. To sign up, you can do so at over here – I am […]

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Google Advice On When To Submit Reconsideration Request & How To Clean Your Link Profile

Google posted a new article today answering common questions about submitting reconsideration requests and managing your backlink profile. Google Search Quality representatives, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz, co-authored the article, going through the …

Google Webmaster Tools “Links To Your Site” Reporting Bug

Last week, we began seeing complaints of the Google Webmaster Tools “Links To Your Site” report showing 80% or less of the number of links that should be displayed. Yesterday I noticed the issue the issue myself and today, Google confirmed this is a reporting bug. In short, tons of…

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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Google Tag Manager Verification Support

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced you can now use a new method to verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools. Now, you can use Google Tag Manager‘s container snippet code to verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools. To verify your unverified site with Google Tag Manager, go to…

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Google Structured Data Dashboard Beta

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced a new beta application is testing within Google Webmaster Tools named the Structured Data Dashboard. The new dashboard will show webmasters more errors and reporting based on their schema, rich snippet and structured data…

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Google Webmaster Notifications Now To Show Example URLs

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that starting in the next day or so, Google Webmaster Tools notifications will now include example URLs of problem areas. For example, if you receive a manual penalty for unnatural links, Google will provide a few sample…

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Google Adds Structured Data Markup Helper Tool

Google announced today a new, fun and useful tool to help webmasters markup their webpages with schema structured data. Structured data markup can help a webpage enhance its search listings by adding rich snippets to the search results page. Google ann…